Diary 1963 - Murshid Sam's Living Stream

Diaries 1963-2The death of Rabia resulted from the most flagrant disobedience to the instructions of InayatKhan. She used to tell us about those instructions over and over. When David, her husband, was ill,she gave a self-praising lecture on the point. The same was true of her daughter Etta. But when shebecame ill, she took exactly the opposite course and her daughter accused me, and successfully, offailing to heal her mother, when all the time the mother was doing everything the opposite of whatPir-o-Murshid had told her.To one who was initiated before the establishment of an IHQ at Geneva, it is illegal and immoralto require his obeisance to an artificial order. In 1925, the then Secretary-General failed in hisefforts to explain the difference between mureed and member. He was overruled and outvoted, andlater Pir-o-Murshid told Saladin: “They have taken my organization from me.” The papers whichbelong to the Sufi Order and not to the IHQ were seized and became corporation property. No manthen and no man since has reached or can reach the God-consciousness. This comes either throughfollowing the Pir, or as Saladin has done, inverting—which is very different from reverting. In theinversion methods, often the Murshid appears as the disciple of the Mureed, learning from him;or the mureed turns inside-out the teaching (inverting)—he does not, however, go in the oppositedirection (reverting).The second problem from Pakistan was of a material nature, but the actual was already taken.When one pursues tasawwuri, he knows what the Murshid wants and does it without visible connection.There may be a dozen books called “Mind-World,” but so far, when it comes to the understandingthereof, practically speaking nobody, unless again, one refers to the inversion method.Baba said: “Let the heart come, let the mind go,” and then gives us a tremendously detailedbook of blueprints, telling God exactly what His traffic rules are and threatening Him with jail sentencesif He does not obey them. Saladin Reps just gave us some art forms illustrating what the heartcan do when the mind and ego don’t get in the way. We prefer the “fun” of having the mind andego.Going to a psychiatrist was a method Pir-o-Murshid would have used, to study the modern sciences.The psychiatrist did one thing which nobody else had dared to, excepting the Pirs—study thehistory of pain and tribulation of the person and see what could be done to pull him out of it. Thisis something which has gone down now and comes up to study the history of pain and tribulationof persons—and nations—and come up with some kind of answer. Of course, at first these will berejected—peculiarities again—metaphysics or personality wanted. But in due time the Sufic psychologicalmethods will win out. No IHQ can control them and there are “Akashic Records,” whetherthey are what HPB said or not.This person is forbidden to join a sect and no justification by sect will do anything more thankeep people apart. The almost universal recognition in South Asia will be followed no doubt, lateron, in a campaign to bring all the Sufi Schools together. This will be action and not talk, and the deadwill bury their dead.Sam